In Tune exhibition and lecture series, TCD (January–April 2014)

Exhibition and Lecture Series celebrates a Millennium of Music in Trinity College Library

Long Room, Trinity College Dublin

Runs until April 2014

In Tune: A Millennium of Music in Trinity College Library features significant treasures from the library’s music collection, built up over the course of four centuries. The collection reflects a thousand years of Irish and European musical history comprising a broad spectrum of manuscript and printed music, including medieval plainchant, music from Georgian Dublin, Irish folk music collections, and 20th-century music from leading Irish composers to popular songs.

The exhibition is accompanied by a series of lectures held at the Trinity Long Room Hub.

In addition, at 8.00 p.m. on Thursday 13 March 2014 in the Examination Hall, Trinity College Dublin, the Callino Quartet will perform works by Ina Boyle and other Irish composers featured in the exhibition.

The exhibition, which runs until April 2014, was launched by Professor Barra Boydell, editor (with Harry White) of the recently published Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. Professor Boydell commented: “This impressive exhibition, reflecting the breadth and historical significance of the music collection held by the library of Trinity College Dublin, is a ‘must’ for anyone interested in music in Ireland. It emphasises the range of musical activity in Ireland over many centuries, including the significant contribution of composers and collectors associated directly with Trinity College.”

In Tune also celebrates the 250th anniversary of the University of Dublin’s Chair of Music, first held in July 1764 by the Earl of Mornington.

In Tune, sponsored by KBC Bank, runs until April 2014.The exhibition is also available online. Full details of the lecture series are available at www.tcd.ie/Library/in-tune